The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

"Remarkable... a Jury of Her Peers Does An Enormous Service, Houses a Drop-Dead Reading List, and Gives the Reader a Fluid Framework."---Los Angeles Times

"Exhilarating, Provocative, Revelatory, Magisterial... the Celebrated Get Their Due... and So Do the Forgotten."---Slate.

Anne Bradstreet — Mary Rowlandson — Judith Sargent Murray — Phillis Wheatley — Susanna Haswell Rowson — Catherine Maria Sedgwick — Lydia Huntley Sigourney — Caroline Kirkland — Lydia Maria Child — Margaret Fuller — Frances Sargent Locke Osgood — Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher — Fanny Fern — Harriet Beecher Stowe — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps — Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe — Julia Ward Howe — Alice Cary — Elizabeth Drew Stoddard — Phoebe Cary — Lucy Larcom — Frances E.W. Harper — Rose Terry Cooke — Emily Dickinson — Helen Hunt Jackson — Rebecca Harding Davis — Louisa May Alcott — Harriet Prescott Spofford — Sarah Piatt — Constance Fenimore Woolson — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward — Emma Lazarus — Sarah Orne Jewett — Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) — Kate Chopin — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — Grace King — Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Edith Wharton — Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) — Mary Austin — Willa Cather — Amy Lowell — Gertrude Stein — Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson — Zitkal-